¹See Paolo Emilio Carapezza, "La Sicilia ritrova a Malta le sue musiche." L’Ora, Palermo, 7 July 1979 (Engl. trans., Sicily rediscovers in Malta its own music in Vetera novaque concentus et carmina, concert programme, Malta, 22 September 1985).

²These concern the music of the Vella composers, whose collection has been catalogued by myself, and Carmelo Pace’s music, catalogued by Georgette Caffari and Marcel De Gabriele. Both catalogues have been published thanks also to the sponsors of the The Hill Monastic Manuscripts Library of St. Johns University. See G. Caffari-M. De Gabriele, Carmelo Pace. A Maltese Composer. Thematic, Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of works (Marsa: Foundation for the promotion of the music of Carmelo Pace, 1991); F. Bruni, The Maltese Composers Dr Giuseppe Vella (1827-1912) and his sons Alberto (1866-1931) Luigi (1868-1950) and Paolo (1873-1948). Biographical notes and a complete catalogue of their works at the Cathedral Museum, Mdina - Malta (Collegeville, Minn.: Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, 1997). The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music sources and the Nani collection will follow in the series. 

³See F. Bruni, Stampe musicali italiane alla Cattedrale di Malta. Studio e catalogo della collezione (Mus. pr. 1-159) (Malta: PEG, 1999). 

⁴See F. Bruni, The Vella Composers.

⁵Agostina Zecca Laterza, Mariangela Donà e Emilia Zanetti, "Regole per la catalogazione delle edizioni musicali", in Manuale di catalogazione musicale (Rome: ICCU, 1979) and Massimo Gentili Tedeschi, Guida a una descrizione catalografica uniforme dei manoscritti musicali (Roma; ICCU, 1984). 

⁶See AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (Londra: M. Gorman, P. W. Winkler, 1982): 473-489.

⁷Several works included in some of the manuscript compilations available actually had been copied from seventeenth-century Italian century printed anthologies held in the Mdina Cathedral Museum Archives (ACM, Mus. Pr. 1-159). See Franco Bruni, "Seventeenth-century music prints at Mdina Cathedral, Malta," Early Music, XXII, 3 (1999): 467-479 and Franco Bruni, Stampe musicali italiane alla Cattedrale di Malta. Studio e catalogo della collezione (Mus. pr. 1-159) (Malta: PEG, 1999).